Ms Vegas what u give u picky eater?

[FrenchTickla]

If mi remember right ur likkle one was picky. Mi ah have food battles. Him will eat the same few things and mi tired of the guilt around what him not eating.

him will eat
oatmeal
fried plantain
spanakopita
cheese stick
yogurt
grilled cheese sandwich
tortilla - mi add spinach and lentils
fry dumplin
hot chocolate
banana (no other fruit in its natural state!)
maybe Mac and cheese (mi hide cauliflower inna it)

[Gen]

thats 10 food items more than likklegen would eat at that age

same thing every day for lunch and dinner over and over and over for a year like some kinda "bot"

#thankgawdthosedaysareover

[FrenchTickla]

Lawd Gen mi never realize seh mi have it dis good

[Peasie]

That's a good variety of food Fenchy when he is ready, he will expand his palate. I had one who wanted bagel, cream cheese, and jelly every single day for lunch.

[Gen]

yes FT that is very good compared to other kids. your little man is getting carbs, dairy, veggies and fibre, he is doing well.

orzo for lunch and dinner every day for more than a year

and then it was soup for lunch and dinner more than a year

mi was starting to think she on the "spectrum" or something



it too shall pass, as they say

according to the food experts/ped/nutritionists, kids will need to taste a food on average of 8-10 (sum seh 10-15) times for them to get used to it, so just keep giving him diff foods daily.

[missus_vegas]

Bubba alrite man.

i not sure if i would say LV is a picky eater or just a moody eater. she eats just about everything we eat and she eats a lot but some days she refuse wats is offered and ask for something else. right now she refusing carrots and cucumber, but she will drink the juice. she gets a kick out of juicing so i am milking that while i can. she is into broccoli, even asking if we can buy broccoli pizza dunno weh she get dat from. she loves ne kind of pasta, rice and dumplin. she no too into the ground foods. she is off mashed potatoes so now i replace dat with fries (sometimes i cut then like fries sometimes like chips and then bake) she love fish and of late she start to ask for chicken again. i just make sure wat we have to offer at home is healthy stuff and den other dan dat i dont pester her to eat. What ever i make for dinner is wat me share gi her. if she eat she eat if not she can get a fruit or some other healthy alternative but not anything like cookies or treats etc. she loves porrige and soup so i try to keep soup in the freezer so mi can quickly warm up some. or in a pinch i put some oatmeal or semola in the microwave.

she went thru a bread and cheese phase as well as a cheerios phase where literally every meal was just that. The phases come and go so no sweat it.

[FrenchTickla]

i think part of mi stress is from the daycare who start write down what mi send fi lunch and how much him eat. i guess dem have some legal obligation fi him nyam while him deh deh. fi dem problem was that he was the only kid in his room bringing food from home and him see di odda pickney dem food and start encah after it.

mi give in to pressure and as of yesterday him start eat there :-(. but mi nuh know how long mi want that fi last.

dem all have mi talk to a nutritionist. ah mean, mi know is a normal phase but the way dem operate you'da think mi a starve di pickney. him doctors certainly were worried and like the nutritionist say, pickney will not starve demself

[Gen]

a lot of these daycares get extra federal funding (or state) based on how many children they manage to sign up to "eat" at the center (not sure if yours is like that)

mi always send food with this child even today


it really is up to you if you want to continue to send his lunch

on the other hand, it seems like "peer pressure" might be getting him to try/eat different foods at the center, so that might be a good thing, if the food is healthy

[FrenchTickla]

Typo uppa top. Him docs NOT worried.

Him never eat what was offered 2 days ago at school. Dem say all the toddlers hated it and di teacher demselves seh dem wudden nyam it either :-/

Yesterday he asked them for seconds.

So is hit or miss either way

[FrenchTickla]

Gen I sent lunch for almost 8 months because it gave me a sense of satisfaction to feed mi child healthy food. But the pickiness made it an anxiety riddled exercise caw now mi have ppl a look pon we like mi a starve him

i would have held out but the peer pressure is what made me give in. It is good in this case. Like u seh him a eat different things now. And if I should be honest with miself is one less thing on mi long list of things to do.

Dat nuh mean I won't go back to plan a though. Maybe when him start preschool.